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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/35391
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I think that the best How-To-Write guide you could follow is the one you created yourself.

Most advice found on online blogs and articles are the result of analysis. They pick a work they like, is currently popular or that they themselves have written and pick it apart. Why do they like it or why is it popular?  
But that's also something that you can do yourself.

My suggestion is that rather to look for a guide that someone made for you it's better to just start reading. LameZeldaPun mentioned a few anime (Log Horizon, Overlord and Sword Art Online), but all of these animations are based on light novel series of the same name. I personally do not think they are very well written, but all three of them are massively popular in Japan (Sword Art Online in particular sold over 20 million copies worldwide according to the [AnimeNewsNetwork](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2017-04-04/sword-art-online-light-novels-have-20-million-copies-in-print-worldwide/.114365)), so there's probably some reason for that.  
 I'm sure there are also other works that you yourself know or maybe inspired you to create your own story in the genre. Pick them up, (re)read them, and whenever you encounter a passage that makes you think "Wow, that was really good", stop reading and write down why you think it works like it does. That also goes for the opposite, if you think something was badly handled write down why. After reading a few stories, compile all your findings and apply them to your own work.   
The trick to this is to keep your 'examples' varied so not to accidentally create something unoriginal or copy someones writing style.

I'm not entirely sure if this was an answer you were looking for, but I honestly believe that there is not much to online how-to guides on making art. Even if it doesn't work it's better to fail on your own advice than that of a random stranger on the internet who convinced you he knew what he was talking about.   
I suppose that also includes me. Ehhh, wait...

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